Career
Experience & Timeline
My professional journey so far.
Solutions Lead
CurrentChimera Technologies Pvt. LtdBangalore
Service-based technology consultancy delivering enterprise software, platform, and AI engineering to global clients. Official role: Solutions Engineer, promoted to Solutions Lead (May 2025) — first official promotion at Chimera. As a consultancy resource, simultaneously carried significantly expanded technical roles on client engagements spanning healthcare and pharmaceutical verticals.
- Promoted to Solutions Lead (31 May 2025) — first official promotion at Chimera, recognising cross-functional technical leadership and consistent high-impact delivery
- Built OptiBoot — internal platform framework for bootstrapping production-ready microservices with standardised CI/CD, Kubernetes manifests, and observability out of the box
- Led presales solutioning: discovery sessions, architecture planning, WBS, POC ownership, and client onboarding
- Recognised internally for stepping into multiple roles beyond the job title — mentoring junior architects, supporting business analysis, participating in backlog grooming, and bridging communication across delivery, AI, QA, and architecture teams
- Led Application Engineering (Lead AE + Senior AE + Junior AE), AI Engineering (Lead AIE + Senior AIE + Junior AIE), and QA (2 engineers) as the apex technical authority
- DDD-based solution architecture augmented with Gen AI: RAG pipelines, MCP tool integrations, Vector DB design, and LLM auditability & governance frameworks
- Live voice AI engineering using real-time multimodal models for agentic, conversational interactions
- Cross-discipline mentorship spanning MERN developers, AI engineers, QA professionals, business analysts, and fellow architects
- Progressed from short-term Technical Architect billing to long-term Lead Architect engagement
- Personally owned DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and Kubernetes platform operations alongside architectural responsibilities
- Full-stack MERN engineering on a large-scale healthcare data platform
- Built end-to-end observability: Prometheus + Grafana, Loki + Promtail log aggregation (later migrated to Alloy)
- Deployed and managed Kafka via Strimzi Operator, MongoDB via Community Operator, Elasticsearch + Kibana via ECK Operator
- Maintained kube-prometheus-stack for cluster-wide metrics and alerting on AWS EKS
- Performed major Kubernetes platform upgrades and ongoing maintenance
- Authored and maintained Helm charts for environment-specific, repeatable deployments
- Configured and maintained Apigee API Gateway for a global vision care eCommerce platform
- Implemented API proxy policies, security controls, quota management, and traffic routing on Apigee
- Collaborated with enterprise delivery and integration architecture teams
Tech Lead
PromotedComputer Valley IT SolutionsBangalore
Livonia Tech was acquired by and merged into Computer Valley IT Solutions, where I was promoted to Tech Lead. Wore many hats concurrently — DevOps, automation testing, full-stack application engineering, mobile & desktop development, UI/UX design, and platform engineering — leading delivery across multiple simultaneous products.
- Promoted to Tech Lead following the Livonia Tech → Computer Valley merger
- DevOps: designed and maintained Jenkins CI/CD pipelines; later migrated to GitHub Actions
- Automation Testing: built Cypress E2E test suites for continuous quality assurance
- Application Engineering: full-stack MERN (React, Node.js, MongoDB) and PHP + MySQL development
- Mobile Development: cross-platform apps with Flutter (Android / iOS) and React + Ionic (hybrid)
- Desktop Development: production desktop applications using Electron.js
- UI/UX: interface design and interactive prototyping in Adobe XD
- Platform Engineering: AWS EC2 deployments, NGINX reverse proxy, MongoDB replica set configuration
- Real-time systems: low-latency cardamom auction platform using Socket.io and WebSockets
- REST API and WebSocket API design & implementation across multiple products
- Introduced pnpm workspaces, Cypress testing standards, and modular architecture conventions
- Conducted internal MERN Stack training programs (2023)
Junior Software Engineer
Livonia TechBangalore
Started career as a Junior Software Engineer, developing modules for enterprise ERP software, building desktop applications, and contributing to full ERP rewrites. Livonia Tech was subsequently acquired by Computer Valley IT Solutions.
- Built a financial transactions consolidation desktop app using Electron.js, React, and SQLite
- Developed full ERP software with Razorpay & Graphy webhooks integration
- Added drag-and-drop task assignment UI using Vue.js
- Contributed to PHP + MySQL ERP modules across multiple enterprise client products
Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA)
Koshys Institute of Management StudiesBangalore North University
Focused on software engineering, databases, and application development.